Monday be Mondayin'

[rere]

So, I am exhausted.  We spent the entire weekend at the picnic grounds.  I hate it when I have to set my alarm both days on the weekend.  I did end up drinking a beer under a shade tree when it was all over, because it was 1000 degrees. Where is fall?  I also won an Instant Pot, so I am super excited to figure out how to use it.  


Tonight is my one night off, we have volleyball and club activities the rest of the week and DH will be gone Tuesday - Thursday.  That on top of a full calendar of classes and meetings.    

[phdmomma]

I dropped a big piece of concrete on my hand yesterday while we were doing yard stuff....so I have a purple finger, which wouldn't be such a big deal, except that I touch type....and its on my dominant hand. It s very Mondayey Monday here.

[campermom]

6 days post op over here. Turned a corner and was able to shower without help. I've managed mostly with Tylenol and Motrin. The first few days I used the narcotics at night but I didn't find much benefit so I stopped. I have a full body garment and today I was able to get it on myself twice. After my shower though I was too swollen and needed my H to do one side. It has hook and eye and zipper on both sides from knee to chest and my skin just bulges out around my hip and scar. He is off at least until tomorrow. He will go to work Wednesday. or Thurs, It depends whether they take my drains out tomorrow though.

They took 4 lbs of skin and fat. The next day, I was swollen but still measured 2 inches less around my waist. I am back down to my presurgery weight, I had gained 6-8 lbs due to swelling. What Else...I'm really really happy I added breast augmentation. That's been the easiest part. My new belly button looks great.

[twinmomma]

Crazy start to the week. I woke up around 3 and tossed and turned until my alarm went off at 5, so I'm dragging. It's picture day at school, so had to get the kids looking good for that. Ran to the office for 2 early morning meetings and now I'm heading out to go to the city for an all day meeting that will mean I'm stuck in the 2+ hour commute traffic home.

Over the weekend I had my first real "interaction" with XH's GF (the one from the affair). I had to pick the kids up from XH and he was at his parents' house with a bunch of family watching the game yesterday. I wanted to see my niece and nephew, so decided to finally bite the bullet and deal with it. Up until now I have refused to be present when she's around. We didn't speak to each other and didn't even make eye contact, but I was in the same room with her and conversing with XH and everyone else around, so I'm counting it as major progress.

[mae0111]

Weekend was busy, but good! My mom took DD1 out shopping Friday evening, so she loved that. Saturday DD2 has 2 soccer games, and we coached the first one. The second was in another town, and I have found the parents to be less than friendly. My anxiety has progressed to borderline attacks, and I really didn’t want to go alone. I asked DH to go, he said maybe, then got involved in a stupid project. He didn’t know about my panic stuff, so didn’t understand why I needed him there. He ended up meeting me at the game, which was tremendously helpful.

BIL came over on Sunday, and DH set up a TV near the pool so we could watch football while the kids swam. Anxiety was under control, so that’s good.

[k3am]

I apparently have seasonal allergies. Yesterday morning my eyes were so swollen that my phone didn't recognize me and I had to log in manually. A combo of flonase and Zyrtec seems to get me to about 70% of normal, but I'm basically miserable. And I'm sure everyone in my office is going to think I came into work with the plague, but nope, apparently ragweed gets me now.

[mustardseed2007]

I had a big training weekend with a long bike, long run and swim in a lake. Still managed to go to a therapy appointment with H which I think was very productive. With the kids we just hung out around the house. They found a Melissa and Doug chore chart in their closet that I don't even remember buying and they are now super excited to do chores. I'm pretty sure that won't even last until the end of the week but it's nice right now.

[covergirl82]

Weekend was pretty good. DD had fun cheering and DS's football team won their game (another shut-out) on Saturday. He got a touchdown, but I missed it because DD and I were still en route to the game from her cheering. DH came down with a man-cold between Saturday to Sunday, so that's fun.

Work will be busy again this week. Hopefully the last of the craziest weeks of our busy time. I had to work on Friday (9/13), which was supposed to be my usual Friday off because I had three files due to payroll and another file due to IT for a distribution list (because there are 24,000+ email addresses) for a memo to go out today. I need my next Friday off (9/27) for my mental health.

[librarychica]

rere, I love my IP and made this last night. It was very good.

www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/pressure-cooker-short-ribs/

[madringal]

I have been short a manager for the past 3 months, so I have been doing my own job, filling in for the office that doesn't have a manager, and training a new manager. Today was the new managers first day officially trained and running at her new office, so I slow played my morning. Got the kids off to school and then drank my coffee, did some laundry, picked up my house, and even made dinner. I didn't get in the shower until 9 and then strolled into the office at 10 am. It was glorious. Now today the only things I can just focus on my own job. For today at least, lol!

[librarychica]

We had a nice weekend. The house is mostly clean and kid laundry is done. Mine is scheduled for tonight. H mostly worked (he’s taking extra time off during the weeks for the kids) but he did emerge from his office to cover my exercise class Sunday. We didn’t do much. I cooked a bunch of food and the whole weekended was generally relaxing.

[mrsGreeko]

Weekend was productive. I got a ton of chores done and had extra kids spending the night on both Friday and Saturday nights. And all with a crazy sore throat.

My throat still hurts today. I shot off an emotional email to my middle kid’s (5th grade) lit teacher yesterday about homework that I had to apologize for this morning. I’m just so effing fed up with homework in elementary school when so many studies have shown there’s no benefit and it only proves detrimental. And weekend homework particularly gets my goat.

And tonight I have a meeting for a committee I’m on at the school, DH has a meeting for one of the classes he’s taking (working on his masters and this session he has lots of group projects, ugh) and my two oldest kids have riding lessons. It’s nuts.

And my boss announced his resignation today and this will not be a good thing for me. Blah.

Mondayest Monday ever.

[supertrooper1]

It was a good weekend with DS. I flew in Friday afternoon from my training and went straight to daycare to pick up DS. He wanted to go to a roller skating party for his school. After 13 hours of traveling, I just wanted to crash on my couch, but I'm glad I took him. I ran into a former coworker and had a nice conversation with him and his family.

Saturday was soccer. My dad showed up to watch and it was the first time he and STBXH had seen each other since the separation in February. I was nervous but they both acted cordial and chit chatted. The rest of the weekend was low key at home. I had planned to organize my closet like I've been saying for months, but it didn't happen and I ended up being very lazy yesterday. I feel much better today. Now to catch up on work emails...

[rere]

Sept 16, 2019 10:14:37 GMT -5 librarychica said:

rere , I love my IP and made this last night. It was very good.

www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/pressure-cooker-short-ribs/

Thanks! I am looking for recipes.  My plan for tonight is to read the direction and look for some easy recipes to get me started.  

[longtimenopost]

Morning all! I intro'd on the other thread since I'm new down here but I'm longtimenopost. H and I both work FT, we're in our 30s and have 2 girls 4 and 6. Used to hang around MM moms but it's a lot of baby baby right now and we're straight done with all that!

I started my period today which ugh, but I'm also happy it came on a Monday because we get free tampons at work so... working mom win 

[supertrooper1]

Welcome longtimenopost!

[traveltheworld]

We had a really good weekend. Both DH and I had to volunteer for the kids' hockey league, but it turned out to be a lot more fun than I anticipated. We also had dinner with another family Saturday night on a nice patio - it was nice. DS had a tough week at school, but was surrounded by friends and teammates over the weekend, so that was great to see.

I'm gearing up for our meeting with DS's teachers this afternoon. It suddenly occurred to me in the middle of the night last night that not only was DS not allowed to play with other kids during recess/lunch; but he sat and ate lunch by himself all week since he was sitting by himself during class time. That really upset me. That, and also when I asked DS if he was excited to play soccer again today with his friends during recess, he said no, he doesn't think he should play with other kids anymore because he can't keep his hands and feet to himself.

[waverly]

Ugh, I was dreading today. It wasn't as bad as I thought, but it still isn't great.

I have nit picky people going after one of my staff basically harassing her.

Other people going after someone else when really that should have all been resolved before I took over. But instead of pursuing it and ripping off the band aid, they are kind of releasing what they want in drips and drabs which makes it crappy for me to deliver more bad news 4 times already.

[186momx]

Update to my Friday vent about gymnastics and cheering each other on. Friday practice a few of the old level 3 mom's were reminding their kiddos to be good teammates and cheer for everyone. So they cheered DD on a little bit more.

Did a crap load of yard maintenance on Saturday afternoon just in time for the rain to start back up. Had a nice dinner playdate with friends we didn't see all summer last night.

DD asked her teacher after school Friday if she could have different work because she is bored out of her mind all day. Ms. S said she would send a few packets off to the print shop for DD next week to work on and that by October they would move into multiplying and new stuff overall.

[covergirl82]

Sept 16, 2019 10:24:01 GMT -5 mrsGreeko said:

My throat still hurts today. I shot off an emotional email to my middle kid’s (5th grade) lit teacher yesterday about homework that I had to apologize for this morning. I’m just so effing fed up with homework in elementary school when so many studies have shown there’s no benefit and it only proves detrimental. And weekend homework particularly gets my goat.

Seriously, preach!!  I think homework in elementary is out of control.  They are there 7 hours a day!  Figure out how to have them do everything they need to do in that 7 hours!  I also had to send an email already about homework.  No, my son is not going to read every day if it means pushing back his bedtime (due to sports practice).  Sleep is more important.  If he reads the 2 hours on the weekend instead, why does that matter, as long as he's getting the required reading time in??

[greenmonkey1]

We had a huge storm Friday night and lost power through yesterday afternoon. Estimate is the rest of the city will get power back this afternoon. Nonetheless, we spent the weekend helping neighbors clean up storm damage. I still need to clean my fridge out and restock. We were able to take a bunch of food to my sister's house so we didn't lose a lot, thankfully.

[186momx]

covergirl82, DD has gotten really creative on when she gets her reading time in. She doesn't have 30 minutes at any one time to sit and read on practice days so she reads when in the car as she spends more than 30 minutes getting chauffeured from school to home, home to practice and back home. I'm having her write out her reading minutes on the log and it is a lot of 10+15+10+5 on each day. I like her teachers thought process on homework this year. They get time to work on it in class if they use their time wisely then they should finish it in class if they don't then they have to finish it at home and if they don't do it at home or forget it they have to redo it. They all must practice spelling at home however much they need it. DD hasn't had to do homework yet at home because she finishes it at school so this has given her extra time to work on spelling or read which she loves.

[sdlaura]

This morning I woke up at 7:08 am and had to get myself and the 3 kids out of the house by 7:45 am. Also forgot to run the dishwasher last night. Amazingly it worked out OK and I feel pretty good after the extra sleep.

Luckily my parents were in town at their local condo this weekend and were a big help with DH gone. I had our normal every other Friday night babysitter so took my parents to dinner at a new restaurant. Saturday was two soccer games and then my friend is a member of a local resort/golf club so we went to the pools there and had dinner, which was fun. Sunday my Mom came over so I could go workout, then it was DH's annual work outing at Dave and Busters. DH wasn't there, but I know a lot of this coworkers, so I took the two older kids and they had a blast.

DH comes back from his guys trip tonight and the next two weeks are going to be pretty insane. I'm trying to get myself motivated to knock things out at work since this is my only day this week in the office...blah.

ETA: Realized halfway through the day that I was only wearing one earring.  Perhaps waking up late did not go as well as I thought.

[sdlaura]

traveltheworld my like was for the good weekend, not your poor DS. I would not be happy if I were you - I hope you get some results.

[mommyatty]

I’ve been stuck in meetings all day. I hate Meeting Mondays. They suck.

[librarychica]

traveltheworld, that is very harsh and I too would be concerned. I hope you get good results from your meeting.

[186momx]

traveltheworld, how did your meeting with the teacher go?

[divanerd]

I'm tired that's all.

[traveltheworld]

Thanks everyone.

We had a really good meeting. According to DS's teacher, she didn't say he couldn't play during recess. She told him that he couldn't play soccer for the week and if he wants, he can spend his recess with Ms. W (the aid). Somehow DS interpreted that to mean he HAD to spend the whole recess, every recess, with Ms. W.

We mentioned how DS has been really upset and was worried about not being able to keep his hands and feet to himself all weekend, even to the point of unwilling to stand with his teammates at hockey. She seemed genuinely surprised and concerned and said she'll be more careful tin he future about criticism so that he doesn't over internalize her comments. She asked a lot of questions about DS, took notes, and seemed genuinely interested in trying to get a better understanding of him.

I felt so relieved.

[rere]

My day ended with Dd texting from school that she was going to throw up. Go get her. Txt Ds to ride the bus home. Apparently his phone is going out, so he doesn't get on the bus. Spent the ride home in an argument about whether he can use his own money to buy an iPhone X. We think he should limp along to Christmas. Good times. I've had wine.

Dd thinks she may have to sit out a set for missing practice. Wth. You cant be sick? This is the first time she had missed since May. I don't want to spend my Tues watching her not play.